Filed under: Country Music, Country/Pop, Electropop, Pop Music | Tags: Country Music, Country/Pop, CSI, Electropop, Fearless, Remix, Sophomore, Taylor Swift, You're Not Sorry
While doing my homework this past Thursday night, my sister came 
downstairs and turned the tv on to watch CSI, mostly because Taylor Swift was guest-starring. While watching I won’t say I thought Taylor was a great actor, but you gotta give the girl props; she’s 19, has already had two hit albums and looks like, with time, she could hold her own in acting.
Moving on, while I thought the episode was interesting, I was more fascinated by the remixed version of “You’re Not Sorry” that was played during the show. The remix was much more electropop compared to Swift’s usual country/pop. After hearing it, I couldn’t help but wonder if Swift would be better off going completely pop.
Many of us know that Taylor is definitely in the confines of country/pop more than any other genre in country music (and some could still argue that.) Her recent sophomore album Fearless just further cemented that. There’s also no doubt that Taylor will be a great songwriter for the next decade and maybe more to come. But the real question is should Taylor ditch all of her country roots and go pop, or should she still stay in the confines of the country/pop genre for now?
Filed under: Electropop, Pop Music, Single Reviews | Tags: All I Ever Wanted, Electropop, Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck Without You
In 2007 Kelly Clarkson made her most artistic album to date with My December, but as with many artistic albums it didn’t do as well as her mainstream 2004 hit album Breakaway. Now,Clarkson is ready to hit the mainstream once again in 2009 with a new album All I Ever Wanted to hit shelves on March 10th and the new single “My Life Would Suck Without You”, just released.
The new single starts off with a much more electronic-pop sound than anything Kelly has recorded before, and who can really blame the girl; Afterall it’s 2009 and electropop is now the leading musical genre in the mainstream.
So what’s the song basically about? In a nutshell, Kelly finds her old flame standing at her door, he tells her that he wants her back, and she takes him back, stating “I know that I’ve got issues, But you’re pretty messed up too, Either way I found out I’m nothing without you..”, along the way. Basically, this is the exact opposite of what “Since U Been Gone” or “Miss Independent” were all about. But while the lyrics may be lacking a bit, the production, musical arrangements, and vocals are top notch.
Just with this single you can probably guess Clarkson is going to have to go back to playing dress up a bit, like Breakaway, and not show us as much of the real her as we saw in My December, but with power pop as catchy as this it won’t be hard to find yourself jamming along with the tune.
B+
